New quantum computing systems for Google, NASA

A Canadian company has entered into a new agreement with Google and NASA to provide them sophisticated quantum computing systems to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning. Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc, announced that it has entered into an agreement covering the installation of a succession of D-Wave systems located at NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California. This agreement supports collaboration among Google, NASA and USRA (Universities Space Research Association) that is dedicated to studying how quantum computing can advance artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the solution of difficult optimisation problems. The new agreement enables Google and its partners to keep their D-Wave system at the state-of-the-art for up to seven years, with new generations of D-Wave systems to be installed at NASA Ames as they become available.…